Efficiency of photosynthesis

Robert Mayer (1845) was the first to recognize clearly that life on earth is maintained by the continuous inflow of sunlight, captured by plants. Indeed the most important aspect of photosynthesis is, that it provides the energetic basis of the organic world.

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